Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will break a lot of hearts. You know how it is. The prince has everything -position, money, looks. The women never let him alone for five minutes, and not only ordinary women, society women, too." The boss's bride-to-be, he had concluded, is "a lovely, simple girl. She's nice in spite of being a movie star, never paints or wears a lot of diamonds...
...everything stark, fleshly and Freudian in the theater from early O'Neill to Tennessee Williams, it became a kind of Carryall Named Desire. Without taste or talent, ear for speech or eye for character, Playwright Hayes showed how a city boy's dissolute family and a country girl's disapproving one worked to prevent their marrying. Seldom has the course of true love run rougher-among souses and trollops, past theft and rape. Love eventually triumphed, but Leaf and Bough speedily closed...
...first, his students understood no English and he could speak not a word of Trukese. For three weeks, teacher and pupils on the onetime Japanese island fortress of Truk groped for a way to talk to each other. Then one day a little girl blurted: "Teacher should not smoke-it does damage in the head." That was the first sign Navy Lieut. William H. O'Brian had that he was getting anywhere with his assignment...
Blue-eyed Dorothy Schiff inherited $15 million from her banker father, Mortimer Schiff. But she was not content to be just a rich girl; she wanted to be a newspaper publisher. With second husband George Backer, a millionaire himself and then a member of the New York City Council, she bought the New York Post in 1939. When Publisher Backer became ill in 1942, "Dolly," who had been vice president and treasurer, took over as publisher herself...
...Wife: Oh, yes. I and the children go to this Baptist church on the corner. I am not a member, but if our oldest girl decides to join, I may join with...